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Published Biographical References

  • Donehoo, George P., ed. Pennsylvania: A History. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926, v.6, p. 197.
     
  • Hall, Louise. "Artificer to Architect in America." Ph.D. dissertation, (Radcliffe College) Harvard University, 1954.
     
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia; To Which Is Prefixed, a Short Account of the Institution, with the Charter, Laws, and Regulations. Philadelphia: C. Scherman & Co. Printers, 1835.
     
  • "Minutes of the Carpenters Company of the City and County of Philadelphia" (in the collections of the American Philosophical Society) (15 April 1765; 21 January 1771; 15 July 1771; 15 April 1771; July 1772; 19 October 1772).
     
  • Moss, Roger W. "Master Builders, A History of the Colonial Philadelphia Building Trades." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972.
     
  • Pennsylvania Gazette (21 May 1741)
     
  • Peterson, Charles E. "Carpenters Hall." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 43:1 (1953): 99.
     
  • Peterson, Charles E. "Library Hall : Home of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1790-1880." Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 95 (1951): 266-285.
     
  • Philadelphia Wills: 1795/197.
     
  • Roach, Hannah B. "Thomas Nevell, Carpenter, Educator, Patriot (1721-1797)." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 24 (May 1965): 153-164.
     

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